Kenzie hughes



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

E. W. M. HUGHES. PRESSED STEEL TRUCK.

No. 408,031. Patented July 30, 1889.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2,

E. W. M. HUGHES. PRESSED STEEL TRUCK.

No. 408.031. Patented July 30 1889.

N. PETERS. PnowLithu m hur. Washingmn. ll 0.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDIVARD WVILLIAM MACKENZIE HUGHES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE FOX SOLID PRESSED STEEL COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

PRESSED-STEEL TRUCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,031, dated July 30, 1889. Application filed May 23, 1889. Serial No. 311,876. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: Fig. 4, which are formed into stirrupsin the Be it known that I, EDWARD WILLIAM MAC- well-known way. The bolster is by prefer- KENZIE HUGHES, of Chicago, Cook county, Illience of pressed steel provided with bearing- 3 5 'nois,haveinventedanew and useful Improvesurfaces for the swinghangers; but this 5 ment in Trucks, of which the following is a structure forms no part of my present applifull, true, and exact description, reference becation. ing had to the accompanying drawings. The box-shaped transoms B, having closed Thisinvention relates to an improvement in ends, are attached, and by preference riveted, o pressed-steel trucks, by which I am enabled to as shown, in the pockets D D, and the tran- IO provide a swinging bolster in a truck unprosoms B are therefore supported in these pockvided with end pieces and in which the rigidets independent of the riveting, the shape of ity of the truck is insured by the transom. the pocket. and the end of the transom insur- My invention will be readily understood ing metallic support without riveting; 5 from the accompanying drawings, in which Wha. I claim as my invention, and desire to I5 Figure 1 represents an elevation; Fig. 2, a secure by Letters Patent, is

plan; Fig. 3, a vertical central section; Fig. I, 1. The combination, in a car-truck, of the a longitudinal section through the wheelwheel-frames A, having a pocket D, with the frame, showing the method of supporting the pressed-steel box-transom B, the end thereof 50 transom; and Fig. 5, a horizontal section fitting the. pocket D, substantially as de- 20 through the transom and wheel-frame. scribed.

The wheel-frames are shown at A connected 2. The combination of the wheel-pieces A A, by the double transom B I3. having pockets D D D D, with the pressed- C represents the bolster. steel box-transom B B, having the ends of the 55 The wheel-frames A are made of pressed boxes B B riveted in the pockets D D D D,

2 5 steel; and the essential part of the present imsubstantially as described.

provement consists in the pockets D D,pressed In testimony whereof I have signed my name in the wheel-frames in the process of manuto this specification in the presence of two subfacture. scribing witnesses.

The bolster-beams B B are box-shaped, hav- EDWARD WILLIAM MACKENZIE HUGHES. 3o ing ends E, integral therewith, fittin g the pock- \Vitnesses:

ets D D. The transom B B is provided with WM. VOSS,

suitable bearings for the swing-hangers G G, V. S. HARTWELL. 

